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Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine Quackery

Say it ain’t so, Dr. Pho! Credulity towards alternative medicine on KevinMD

Say it ain’t so, Dr. Pho! Back when I first started blogging over six years ago, one of the first medical blogs I came across was KevinMD, the weblog of one Dr. Kevin Pho. Back then, of course, Dr. Pho’s blog wasn’t anywhere near the medblogging juggernaut that it is now, a part of Medpage […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Complementary and alternative medicine Medicine

Immunize!

Now here’s something that can be used to counter the idiocy of Mike Adams Don’t Inject Me: ZDoggMD’s Immunize: Take that, Mike Adams!

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Complementary and alternative medicine Homeopathy Medicine Naturopathy Quackery

Naturopathy versus science

Naturopathy has been a recurrent topic on this blog. The reasons should be obvious. Although homeopathy is the one woo to rule them all in the U.K. and much of Europe, here in the U.S. homeopathy is not nearly as big a deal. Arguably, some flavor of naturopathy is the second most prevalent “alternative medical […]

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Complementary and alternative medicine Homeopathy Medicine Quackery

Mike Adams discovers the placebo effect. Hilarity ensues.

It’s Friday. That means I’m in the mood for something more amusing. In the past, I used to use Fridays to have some fun with some particularly outrageous bit of woo, such as quantum homeopathy or DNA activation. Lately, I haven’t done Your Friday Dose of Woo nearly as often as I used to, but […]

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Antivaccine nonsense Autism Medicine Politics

An anti-vaccine protest in New York today

Blame Comcast, I say. Blame Comcast for the fact that I don’t have a typical pearl of Orac-ian logorrheic majesty for your edification this morning. And there’s so much that requires such a pearl to be thrown at it, too, in particular a study claiming that cell phone radiation alters brain metabolism in the areas […]